As spring arrives I'm in the mood to garden. Hidden Gardens of Paris was a good springtime read. I enjoyed reading about favorite green spaces in Paris and discovering new ones to add to my travel itinerary for the future.
Walking is a way to speak the language of a city "Only by using one's leg power to see one arrondissement after another can you get inside that language. moving on foot from central or western Paris into the northeast enables the physical and emotional reverberations of 'psychogeography,' the sense of 'the sudden change of ambiance in a street within the space of a few meters, the evident division of the city into zones of distinct psychic atmosphere.' As you walk, it becomes obvious, the City of Light speaks many languages" (185).
There is no better city to stroll through than Paris. My favorite green spaces include: the Tuilleries, the Jardin de Luxembourg, le Parc des Buttes Chaumont, and cemeteries large and small. My very favorite green space in all of France is an hour away from Paris: Monet's gardens at Giverny.
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